Dáil debates

Thursday, 14 April 2016

2:35 pm

Photo of Gerry AdamsGerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There are Ministers in place who were sacked by the electorate but who are implementing policies for which they have no mandate and that the majority of Teachtaí Dála were mandated to change.

We are going to come in here for a few hours and then go off again until next week. The Ceann Comhairle rightly acknowledges the seriousness of the issues I have raised. We have no monopoly on these issues - let me be clear about this - but why are we not discussing these issues, holding Ministers to account and trying to bring about some resolution?

We argued last week to have an Oireachtas committee put together to deal with the housing emergency. We were disallowed. I am not objecting to that as the Ceann Comhairle did what he believed was appropriate. We are now dealing with it but a week has been lost. We need to give people some sense that this bubble is not what envelops everyone in here, that we are conscious of what we were sent here to do and that we will come back tomorrow, the next day and the next. If the two leaders of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael want to cavort with each other, that should not stop us in the meantime from getting along with the business we were sent here to deal with.

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